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This is embarrassing to admit but I haven't slept through the night in over two years. I'm 67 and I've been getting up to pee 3 to 4 times every single night, sometimes more. It was ruining my life. I'd fall asleep around 10pm. Wake up at midnight. Potty break. Back to bed. Wake up at 2am. Pee. Back to bed. Wake up at 4am. Pee again. By the time my alarm went off at 6:30 I felt like I hadn't slept at all. My husband sleeps through everything so he had no idea how bad it got. But I was exhausted constantly. Napping during the day. Falling asleep watching TV at 7pm. I stopped driving anywhere in the evening because I was too tired to focus. I went to my doctor and she ran all these tests. Not diabetes. Not a UTI. Said my bladder looked fine. She basically said it was just age. That as we get older we pee more at night. Told me to try not drinking anything after 6pm. I was already doing that. Nothing to drink past 5pm for months. Didn't help at all. She sent me to a urologist. More tests. Everything looked normal. He gave me medication to help my bladder hold more overnight. The medication made me so constipated. And gave me terrible dry mouth. And I was still getting up 2-3 times a night. Better than 4-5 but still not enough to actually feel rested. I honestly started thinking this was just my life now. Never sleeping through the night again. Then I had my annual physical with a new doctor. Older woman, maybe mid 60s. When she asked how I was sleeping I just started crying. Told her everything. She didn't seem surprised at all. Said she had the exact same problem a few years ago. Was getting up 4-5 times a night herself. Then she asked if my feet or ankles swelled up during the day. I said yes actually. By evening they'd be really puffy. I just figured that was normal. She explained that when you sit or stand all day, fluid pools down in your legs. Then at night when you lay down flat, all that fluid redistributes back through your body. Your kidneys filter it. And you have to pee it out. So the more swelling you have during the day, the more you pee at night. She said compression socks help keep the fluid from pooling down in your legs during the day. Which means way less fluid to deal with at night. She told me she wears them herself. Every single afternoon. Said she went from 4-5 bathroom trips a night to maybe once. Sometimes she doesn't get up at all. She even wrote down the brand for me. Onecompress. Said they're made from bamboo so they're actually soft and comfortable all day. She even wears them to bed because they're gentle enough to sleep in. I ordered them that same night. When they showed up I was surprised because they just felt like soft socks. They have these little grippy dots on the bottom which I actually liked for my bathroom floor. I wore them all day that first day. And my ankles didn’t have any swelling by bedtime. That first night I only woke up once at 3am. I went back to sleep and didn't wake up again until my alarm. It was the first time in months I'd slept more than 4 hours straight. It's been 4 months now. Most nights I get up once. Sometimes twice. Some nights I don't get up at all. I'm sleeping 6-7 hours most of the time. My husband finally noticed I'm not falling asleep on the couch anymore. I'm actually awake for our shows and I'm starting to be more active as well. I started calling them my pee socks and my older sister thinks that's hilarious. But she asked me to order her a pair anyway. She had a fall at night in her own bathroom and those grippy dots on the bottom could really help her not slip. This is going to sound dramatic but these socks changed my life. If you're getting up multiple times every night and you're exhausted all day... just try them. They have a 60 day guarantee so you can send them back if they don't work. I wish someone had told me about these years ago. I'll put the link below.